Meredith

“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”
― Maya Angelou

“Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.”
― Jack Kerouac

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
― Thomas A. Edison